A System for the Measurement of Foliar Diseases of Cucumber

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 6:10-12 (article 5) 1983 S. F. Jenkins, Jr. and T. C. Wehner North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27650 Several pathogenic microorganisms cause injury to the foliage of pickling and slicing cucumbers (Table 1). The pathogens may cause injury to all above-ground parts including the leaves, stems, petioles, peduncles and fruit. […]

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Intermediary Inheritance of Glabrousness (gl) in Cucumber

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 6:8-9 (article 4) 1983 H. Inggamer and O.M.B. de Ponti Institute for Horticultural Plant Breeding, P.O.B. 16, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands In order to improve the biological control of the glasshouse whitefly (Trialeurodes vaporariorum) with the parasitic wasp Encarsia formosa, glabrous cucumber mutants were introduced from the USSR and the USA (1). The […]

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Two Sources Conferring Partial Dominant Resistance to Powdery Mildew (Sphaerotheca fuliginea Poll.) in Cucumber

Cucurbit Genetics CooperAli El Jack and Henry M. Munger Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853ative Report 6:7-8 (article 3) 1983 Ali El Jack and Henry M. Munger Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 In cucumber, nearly all crosses of powdery mildew resistant (PMR) x susceptible parents yield fully susceptible F1s. In a backcross program to transfer PMR […]

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Effect of Within Row Spacing on Mature Fruit Yield of Three Cucumis sativus var. hardwickii Derivatives and a Gynoecious Inbred of Cucumis sativus

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 6:3-4 (article 1) 1983 D. E. Delaney, R. L. Lower and M. D. Edwards University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 Cucumis sativus var. hardwickii has great potential as a source of germplasm for improving yield of pickling cucumbers. It is unique in that it sets large numbers of seeded fruit, and seems to lack […]

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Mentor Pollen in an Interspecific Cross in Cucumis: Effects of Irradiation Dose and of Order of Application of the Two Types of Pollen

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 6:94-95 (article 48) 1983 J. B. M. Custers and A. P. M. den Nijs Institute for Horticultural Plant Breeding, P. O. Box 16, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands In recent years we regularly used irradiated mentor pollen (IMP) as a pollination aid in interspecific hybridization in Cucumis. When the control cross […]

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An Efficient Procedure to Screen for Resistance to Root Knot Nematodes in Cucurbits

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 6:96-98 (article 49) 1983 A. P. M. den Nijs and K. Hofman Institute for Horticultural Plant Breeding, P. O. Box 16, Wageningen, The Netherlands Screening for resistance to root knot nematodes is normally carried out in nematode-infested soil. Seeds, seedlings or young plants are placed in the infested soil and, after […]

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The Occurrence of Zucchini Yellow Mosaic Virus in the United States

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 6:99 (article 50) 1983 R. Provvidenti and D. Gonsalves New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, New York 14456 H. S. Humaydan Joseph Harris Company, Inc., Rochester, New York 14624 A new viral disease occurred in 1982 in a field of ‘Multipik’, a cultivar of yellow summer squash (Cucurbita pepo) situated […]

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Variation for Interspecific Crossability of Cucumis anguria L. and C. zeyheri Sond.

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 6:100-101 (article 51) 1983 D. L. Visser and A. P. M. den Nijs Institute for Horticultural Plant Breeding, P. O. Box 16, Wageningen, The Netherlands Cucumis anguria L. and C. zeyheri Sond. are both resistant to cucumber green mottle mosaic virus, a serious disease of glasshouse cucumbers. The resistance of C. […]

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